ABSTRACT
Th is chapter aims to open up discussion about the relationship between disability and notions of criminality and victimhood. Th is discussion is underpinned with a radical-critical victimological stance [Mawby and Walklate, 1994] that sees the victimization of disabled people beyond the narrow confi nes of criminal law [van Dijk, 1999; Zednar, 2002; Goodey, 2005]. Th e rationale for this chapter is that the discipline of disability studies has inadequately addressed this relationship, whereas in the areas of criminology
and victimology there has been a lack of engagement with the relatively recent debates around what it means to be disabled. Th is chapter hopes to unearth these inadequacies to advance the idea that broadening and combining relatively new understandings of disability with developing concepts of criminology and victimology could benefi t future work in both areas.
